Facilities

• Eight climate-controlled rooms (temperature and humidity)
• Large mixing room for preparing special diets in batches (1kg to several hundred kilos)
• Available at commercial rates

More information about the Animal House Complex

Contact:
Grahame Chaffey
P: 02 6773 3233 / 0408 658 248
E: gchaffey@une.edu.au

The N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium (NE) at UNE consists of c.70 000 vascular plant specimens, housed in a purpose built facility. Herbarium NE is an internationally recognised Herbarium. Herbarium NE is able to exchange specimens with, borrow from and lend to other recognised herbaria.

More information about the N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium (NE)

• This facility is available at commercial rates
  

Contact:
Simon Stachiw
P: 02 6773 5139
E: sstachiw@une.edu.au

• The CAT Scanner at UNE was installed in 1996, it is an Hitachi CT -- W400 and is available for research and commercial scanning for body and carcass composition projects
• This facility is available at commercial rates

Contact:
Pat Littlefield
P: 02 6773 3397
E: plittlef@une.edu.au

• The Electron Microscope Unit (EMU) is an independent service unit within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences providing electron microscope facilities to all members of the University as well as outside clients.
• The facility includes a JEOL-1200-EX transmission electron microscope (installed 1988) and a EOL-JSM-5800LV scanning electron microscope (installed 1995) with electron microanalysis system.
• This facility is available at commercial rates.

Contact:
Pat Littlefield
P: 02 6773 3397
E: emunit@une.edu.au

Newholme Field Laboratory

Newholme is a commercially operated Field Laboratory located about 10 km north of Armidale. Its primary function is for teaching and research.

Go to the Newholme Field Laboratory webpage

Arrawarra Coastal Field Station

The marine field station is located at Arrawarra Headland, on the northern New South Wales coast, adjacent to the Solitary Island Marine Park which supports substantial coral communities. The station was established in the late 1960's to provide a base for both teaching and research. The location of the station is ideal, providing easy access to a full range of marine and estuarine habitats.

Accommodation, kitchen, laboratory facilities (including aquaria with flow-through sea-water) vessels (two ocean going and one for estuarine use) are available at the station. Limited computing facilities are available including access to the Internet

For enquiries regarding booking the Arrawarra Field Station please contact:
Richard Willis
P: 02 6773 2615
E: rwillis@une.edu.au

Go to the Arrawarra Coastal Field Station web page

Botany Greenhouse, Mesocosm and Shadehouse facilities.

• Botany Greenhouse Information
• Botany Greenhouse Floor Plans
• Greenhouse Facility Charges 2009/10

For further information please contact:
Richard Willis
P: 02 6773 2615
E: rwillis@une.edu.au

UNE Greenhouse Complex (Greenhouse 1 and 2, Glasshouse, Shadehouse/Polyhouse)

• UNE Greenhouse Complex Information
• UNE Greenhouse Floor Plans
• Greenhouse Facility Charges 2009/10

For further information please contact:
Michael Faint
P: 02 6773 2889
E: mfaint@une.edu.au

• Agricultural & Environmental Analytical Laboratory
• Chromatography Laboratory
• Fibre Measurement Laboratory
• X-ray Laboratory
• Land Use, Planning & Management Laboratory
• Limnological Equipment & Laboratory
• Ecology Laboratories
• Plant & Soil Laboratories
• Wildlife Resources Laboratory
• Water Resources Laboratory

Agricultural & Environmental Analytical Laboratory

The Laboratory is equipped to carry out a wide range of cation, anion and total elemental analyses on environmental, agricultural, geological and archaeological samples by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrosopy, CNS Mass Spectroscopy, Near Infra Red Spectrophotometry, Ion Chromatography, and other methods.

This facility provides chemical analytical services at subsidised rates to students and staff from all Schools for UNE teaching and research activities.
Services are also provided to outside clients at competitive commercial rates.

Chromatography Laboratory

The Chromatography Laboratory is equipped to carry out analysis of volatile organics utilising either Gas Chromatography for routine analyses or Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry for identification of unknowns.

The facility also has a dedicated Gas Chromatograph for analysis of gas samples. High Pressure Liquid Chromatography facilities are available for determination of known non-volatiles. Associated facilities include solvent extraction, steam distillation and vacuum extraction.

Fibre Measurement Laboratory

The Fibre Measurement Laboratory is a controlled atmosphere laboratory to condition fibre samples to 20°C and 65% RH prior to measurement. These test include:

Agritest Staple Breaker (Model 2): a semi-automatic machine for the measurement of the staple length and strength of greasy wool staples with statistical analysis of results and printed test report.

OFDA-1—(Optical-Based Fibre Diameter Analyser): measures 2 mm scoured fibre snippets including wool, cashmere, mohair, alpaca and some synthetic fibres. The OFDA-100 histogram data printout includes: mean fibre diamter, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, prickle factor and spinning fineness.

Contact:
Neil Baillie
P: 02 6773 3241
E: nbaillie@une.edu.au

X-ray Laboratory

The x-ray laboratory is operated by David Keith and includes an automated Philips X-ray diffractometer. This facility is available for commercial service.

For enquiries and services please contact:

David Keith
P: 02 6773 2900
E: geology@une.edu.au

Paul Ashley
P: 02 6773 2348
E: pashley@une.edu.au

Land Use, Planning & Management Laboratory

The laboratory has 45 research-quality mirror stereoscopes for aerial photographic interpretation, a small air photo library of NE NSW, and a topographic map collection.

Limnological Equipment & Laboratory

Variety of Oxygen, pH and conductivity meters, water sampling bottles and sampling equipment, Ekman grab, multi-channel temperature recorders, research-quality compound and dissecting microscopes with fibre-optic cold-light illuminators, portable analytical balance, and access to a range of different sized boats. Specialist sampling equipment includes freeze corers and box samplers.

Ecology Laboratories

Range of equipment including incubators, ovens, refrigerators, balances, microscopes (including some of research standard with fibre-optic cold-light source), portable field based automatic weather station, light and radiation meters, specimen storage facilities etc.

Plant & Soil Laboratories

Germination cabinets, incubators, drying ovens, balances, refrigerators, pH and conductivity meters, EM38 conductivity meter for measuring apparent soil salinity, neutron moisture probe, field sampling equipment including soil and forest mensuration kits, and preparation areas for sample analyses.

Wildlife Resources Laboratory

Houses specimen collections of Australian fauna, preparation rooms, teaching and research laboratories, animal house facilities including a nocturnal room for small mammals, field observation equipment including radio tracking devices, bat detectors, trapping and spotlighting equipment, field glasses, dietary analysis facilities, walk-in refrigerator and deep freezers etc.

Water Resources Laboratory

This facility provides chemical analyses of soil, rock, plant and animal samples with an automated atomic absorption spectrophotometer, auto-analyser, UV/ UIS spectrophotometer, drying ovens, incubators, centrifuges, autoclaves, muffle furnace, balances, distillation units etc.

The department maintains a comprehensive collection of rock and fossil samples from research collections. These are dominantly from the New England region (the most comprehensive collection of New England rocks worldwide). Approximately 75,000 rock samples are catalogued.

The department maintains a small core library, with a selection of drill core from Eastern Australia.

Curated by:
David Keith
P: 02 6773 2900
E: dkeith@une.edu.au

The University of New England’s Rural Properties are a unique natural resource supporting world-class research and teaching. Rural Properties encompasses nine individual properties and covers an environmentally diverse area of 4837 hectares.

• Armidale Properties (Kirby & Laureldale Research Stations)
• Douglas McMaster Research Station, Warialda
• Newholme Field Laboratory
• Tullimba, Uralla

More information about Rural Properties

The Department has isotope separation lines for the preparation of CO2 and SO2 (C,O and S isotopes). Subsequent mass spectrography is carried under a collaborative arrangement at the Centre for Isotope Studies, CSIRO, North Ryde.

A USGS heating-cooling stage is available for fluid inclusion studies.

Administered by:
Paul Ashley
P: 02 6773 2348
E: pashley@une.edu.au

The Department has facilities for the preparation of thin, polished thin and polished sections, including fluid inclusion plates.

A commercial service is offered for petrographic work.
Section manufacture includes thin sections, polished thin sections, polished blocks, doubly polished fluid inclusion plates, impregnation of soft or fractured samples, and K-feldspar staining.

Petrographic descriptions for commercial work and fluid inclusion studies can also be undertaken.

Operated by:
David Keith
P: 02 6773 2900
E: dkeith@une.edu.au